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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the one I attended for Julius West they said that the pathways would look like:

Math 5 students can start in Math 6 or AMP 6, depending on teacher recommendation.

Math 5/6, aka Compact Math students can start in AMP 6, or, by county selection, into what was just renamed this morning as Pre-Algebra.[/quote]

Huh, I wonder if this is 7+ with additional content added to cover the first half of 7th. The main benefit of 7+ is that it uses Illustrative Math and not Curriculum 2.0 like AIM, but the drawback is that 7+ misses some 7th grade standards.[/quote]

Just a reminder that the compaction of Math 6, 7 & 8 into AMP 6+ and AMP 7+ rearranges some of the content vs. the on-grade-level sequences.  There is a portion missed by going from 5/6 to 7+, but that portion is a bit different from the first half of Math 7.

The old AIM missed some pre-Algebra standards vs. the new Algebra curriculum, leaving it in something of the same spot as 7+ (just different specifics missed) when going there from 5/6.  Some middle schools like Parkland had created a new "AIM" based on the Illustrative Math curriculum, but having found the missing items between 5/6 and 7+ and working them back in.  That may be the model that was used for a new "Pre-Algebra" course.  (Just a guess, there, as that is news to me.)[/quote]

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